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US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 3:45 pm
Quote:a “Snakebite Survivor”."

IT seems that arrows are tougher than snakes.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 4:06 pm
(November 21, 2018 at 2:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Can you imagine what an inbred gene pool that must be?

Kind of like the Ozarks.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 4:08 pm
(November 21, 2018 at 3:13 pm)Cato Wrote: I'm skeptical of the missionary motivation for his attempt to visit the island.  Most of the reporting describes John Allen Chau as an adventure tourist.  Chau's Instagram profile contains the following:

"The 27-year-old described himself on Instagram as a “Wilderness EMT (Emergency Medical Technician), “PADI Advanced Open Water Diver”, “Outbound Collective Explorer” and a “Snakebite Survivor”."

Missions are typically sponsored by a church or other faith based organization, but I cannot find any reference to an organization claiming affiliation.  It's certainly possible that an organization would distance itself from someone that knowingly broke the law.  I also understand that he could potentially be an independent prosthelytizer, but his adventure tourism seems to be more prevalent in what's being reported about his internet presence.

As far as locals claiming he was out to preach, I think it's much more likely that Chau used that as an excuse while trying to convince locals to break the law.  Or the locals can simply be making it up to try to cover their own asses.  While reading through the reporting I was reminded of a young woman that blew through a stop sign at a 'T' intersection and ran into a house.  Although suspected of texting and not paying attention she claimed that she was praying with her eyes shut.  As OakTree already mentioned, the language barrier makes the missionary aspect of this a bit of a stretch to begin with.



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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 4:10 pm
Clearly, the guy wasn't right in the head.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 4:12 pm
(November 21, 2018 at 2:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Can you imagine what an inbred gene pool that must be?

Kind of like the Ozarks.

Hey! Most of my relatives live south of I-44!

So, yeah, you're right.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 4:21 pm
(November 21, 2018 at 4:08 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Darwin Award doesn’t care.

Pretty much. According to what I read everyone spent the first night on the boats out of arrow range. The next morning our award winner takes a canoe to the island where he gets shot with arrows but paddles back to the boat. Morning two he goes back. This time the natives destroy his canoe, but he swims back to the boat again. Day 3 he goes back to the island one more time, and the next time the fishermen see him the natives are dragging his body into the jungle. Suicide by caveman...
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 4:32 pm
Fake news! God protected him, but wanted him to join his friends in Heaven. God graciously allowed that to happen.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 4:33 pm
(November 21, 2018 at 4:21 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:
(November 21, 2018 at 4:08 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Darwin Award doesn’t care.

Pretty much. According to what I read everyone spent the first night on the boats out of arrow range. The next morning our award winner takes a canoe to the island where he gets shot with arrows but paddles back to the boat. Morning two he goes back. This time the natives destroy his canoe, but he swims back to the boat again. Day 3 he goes back to the island one more time, and the next time the fishermen see him the natives are dragging his body into the jungle. Suicide by caveman...

Yeah that’s a special kind of dumb.
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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 4:37 pm
Darwin award.

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RE: US tourist enters tribal area in Andaman island, to preach Christianity, killed
November 21, 2018 at 5:03 pm (This post was last modified: November 21, 2018 at 5:03 pm by Chad32.)
(November 21, 2018 at 2:41 pm)wyzas Wrote: Why the hell are they trying to recover the body?

Presumably the family would want it back. I'm glad the locals at least buried it, though.
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